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May 24, 2013
The Newsstand is the Daily’s newsroom blog. The purpose of this blog is to increase transparency of our coverage and give reporters an opportunity to blog news that doesn’t make it into print.
Tue, 4/23, 6:10pm (1 month ago)
French lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, news sources reported.
The law, which will also allow same-sex couples to adopt children, passed by 321 votes to 225, the BBC reported. French President Francois Hollande had made the issue one of his main priorities.
Opinion polls suggested a small majority of French…
Tue, 4/23, 4:03pm (1 month ago)
The Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials has been released from federal custody.
Paul Kevin Curtis was charged with sending a threatening letter to the president last week after security officials found he had sent poisoned letters to the Obama, a U.S. Senator…
Sun, 4/21, 5:04pm (1 month ago)
The hunt for a man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend ended Sunday in southern Minnesota, news sources reported.
Shane Alan Wilson, 27, was picked up by police in Steele County, where authorities found him suffering from hypothermia, the Star Tribune reported.
Wilson was wanted in connection with the stabbing of his unidentified…
Fri, 4/19, 4:30pm (1 month ago)
The remains of another stillborn are believed to be in the basket of linens sent from Regions Hospital, the Star Tribune reported Friday.
The basket was sent from the hospital in St. Paul to a laundry cleaning service in Red Wing, Minn. Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the hospital discovered a stillborn at 22…
Fri, 4/19, 8:33am (1 month ago)
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Thu, 4/18, 3:31pm (1 month ago)
A former justice of the peace was charged Thursday with murder in the killings of two Texas prosecutors and the wife of one of them.
Eric Williams, 46, is charged in the March killings Kaufman District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia, and the January killing of assistant district attorney…
Thu, 4/18, 12:45pm (1 month ago)
Minnesota employers cut jobs in March, news sources reported, but the state's unemployment rate dropped slightly from last month.
A report from the state Department of Employment and Economic Development claims the drop in unemployment comes from more people giving up on finding jobs, Minnpost reported.
Overall, Minnesota lost 5,200 jobs in…
Thu, 4/18, 12:21am (1 month ago)
Note: a previous version of this blog post incorrectly reported the number of casualities from the explosion. Reports have been varied and conflicting, and the post has been updated to reflect that uncertainty and the latest casuality numbers.
A fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX has killed between five and 15…
Wed, 4/17, 12:52pm (1 month ago)
The body of a stillborn baby was accidently sent to a laundry service and discovered by workers Tuesday.
Police were called to Crothall Laundry, a laundry service in Red Wing, Minn., just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when the baby's body fell out of a hospital bed sheet that was being prepared…
Wed, 4/17, 12:32pm (1 month ago)
Letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker that have preliminarily tested positive for the deadly poison ricin are related and were both sent from Memphis, Tenn., the FBI said Wednesday. A Missouri senator said police have a suspect in mind.
The FBI says that the letters sent to…
Mon, 4/15, 10:33pm (1 month ago)
A car ran into the Tea House Chinese Restaurant in Stadium Village on Monday night.
There were no injuries, but a Minneapolis police officer and Tea House employee say the driver may have been intoxicated.
The driver of the Mercury car hit the 25th Avenue side of the building at about 8:15 p.m.…
Mon, 4/15, 3:08pm (1 month ago)
Two explosions set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed or injured multiple people Monday, the Boston Herald reports.
“I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising,” said Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who ran…
Mon, 4/15, 11:58am (1 month ago)
An 11 year detainee in Guantanamo Bay described his experience refusing food since Feb. 10 in an op-ed column in the New York Times Monday.
The prisoner, Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel, is a Yemeni man accused of serving as one Osama Bin Laden's guard. Al-hasan denies those accusations and has refused…
Sun, 4/14, 12:19am (1 month ago)
After last year's early spring, this year's mid-April winter storms, some say, are simply unfair.
Minnesota's most recent storm broke two state records, according to Mark Seeley, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate professor for the University of Minnesota.
In an interview with MPR, he said that both the rainfall Wednesday and Thursday's 13…
Sat, 4/13, 9:11pm (1 month ago)
Taconite industry workers in the Iron Range have an increased risk of contracting rare lung cancer mesothelioma, according to a University news release.
The $4.9 million Minnesota Taconite Workers Health Study started in 2008 and found that risk for the rare lung cancer increased by 3 percent for every additional year…
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